Don't Cheat in Our Hometown (album)
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Released1983
Studio
- Audio Media (Nashville, Tennessee)
- Scruggs Sound (Berry Hill, Tennessee)
- Enactron Truck (North Hollywood, California)
Length31:11
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| Released | 1983 | |||
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| Genre | Country | |||
| Length | 31:11 | |||
| Label | Epic, Sugar Hill | |||
| Producer | Ricky Skaggs | |||
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Don't Cheat in Our Hometown is the sixth studio album by American country music artist Ricky Skaggs. It was released in 1983 via Epic Records. The album peaked at number 1 on the Billboard Top Country Albums chart.[2] It features guitar work from Albert Lee on five of the album's ten tracks and Dolly Parton harmonizes vocals on "A Vision Of Mother" and "Don't Step Over an Old Love".
| No. | Title | Writer(s) | Length |
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| 1. | "Don't Cheat in Our Hometown" | Ray Pennington, Roy Marcum | 3:17 |
| 2. | "Honey (Open That Door)" | Mel Tillis | 3:28 |
| 3. | "A Wound Time Can't Erase" | Bill D. Johnson | 3:40 |
| 4. | "A Vision of Mother" | Carter Stanley, Ralph Stanley | 3:19 |
| 5. | "Uncle Pen" | Bill Monroe | 2:23 |
| 6. | "I'm Head Over Heels in Love" | Lester Flatt | 3:41 |
| 7. | "Don't Step Over an Old Love" | Fred Stryker | 3:34 |
| 8. | "She's More to Be Pitied" | Ruby Rakes | 2:48 |
| 9. | "Keep a Memory" | C. Stanley | 2:36 |
| 10. | "Children Go Where I Send Thee" | Traditional | 2:25 |
Personnel
- Ricky Skaggs – lead vocals, acoustic guitar, backing vocals (1, 2, 8, 9), fiddle (1, 4, 7–9), harmony vocals (3–5, 7), mandolin (4, 7, 9), arrangements (10)
- Glen Hardin – piano (1, 2, 7, 8)
- Buck White – piano fills (2, 3), piano solo (2), bass vocals (10)
- Mickey Merrit – piano (3, 5)
- Albert Lee – electric guitar (1, 7, 8), electric lead guitar (2, 6), piano (6)
- Ray Flacke – electric guitar (3, 5)
- Brian Ahern – S-400 guitar (4, 9), acoustic guitar (6), electric guitar (6)
- Hank DeVito – steel guitar (1, 7, 8), electric rhythm guitar (2)
- Bruce Bouton – steel guitar (3, 5)
- Lou Reid – banjo (5), harmony vocals (5)
- Marc Pruett – banjo (9)
- Jerry Douglas – dobro (9)
- Emory Gordy, Jr. – bass guitar (1, 2, 4, 6–9)
- Jesse Chambers – bass guitar (3, 5)
- John Ware – drums (1, 2, 6–8)
- George Grantham – drums (3, 5)
- Bobby Hicks – fiddle (3, 5)
- Bobby Hardin – backing vocals (2)
- Cheryl White-Warren – backing vocals (2), harmony vocals (10)
- Sharon White-Skaggs – backing vocals (2), harmony vocals (10)
- Dolly Parton – harmony vocals (4, 7)